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The year is 1942 and Britain’s wartime Prime Minister is at the White House for a summit with the President of the United States to discuss the progress of the war against Nazi Germany.<p>Tobruk has just fallen to Germans and Italian troops and Winston Churchill is desperate to retain the support of …

Did Shape of Water swan off with the most Baftas? Or has Three Billboards put up a good show? All the nominees and winners of the Bafta<p>Outstanding British film<p>Darkest Hour<br>The Death of Stalin<br>God’s Own Country<br>Lady Macbeth<br>Paddington 2<b><br>WINNER: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri</b><p>EE Rising Star …

A trove of recently released documents confirms that Washington’s role in the country’s 1965 massacre was part of a bigger Cold War strategy.<p>A trove of newly declassified diplomatic cables reveals a surprising degree of American involvement in a brutal anti-communist purge in Indonesia …

In an updated extract from the bestselling Enigma history, we revisit the daring engagement in which two men gave their lives to make a breakthrough possible<p>The top-secret breaking of the German Enigma code by Alan Turing, and the codebreakers working with him at Bletchley Park, was one of the …

<b>(CNN) —</b> Color film was rare in World War II. The vast majority of the photos taken during the conflict were in black and white, and color photography as a whole was still a relatively new technique.<p>It's this fact that makes the photos from a new book published by Imperial War Museums so …

Shipwrecks from thousands of years ago have been found for the first time at the bottom of the Black Sea.<p>The Black Sea MAP project has discovered artefacts from sunken ships dating from the Byzantine Era, the Middle Ages and the Ottoman Empire during one of the largest ever maritime …

World War I involved 32 nations from 1914 to 1919. It redrew the world map and reshaped many borders in Europe.<p>The collapse of the Russian Empire created Poland, the Baltics, and Finland. The Austro-Hungarian Empire dissolved into Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia. When the Ottoman …

From wine being sipped on the moon to whisky on a space station, space travel has had a long and complex relationship with alcohol.<p>Travelling thousands of miles above the Earth, into the great inky unknown, is hard work. It’s stressful and scary. So why shouldn’t astronauts treat themselves to an …

Psst, Hollywood: Why stop with the fictional operative Marion Cotillard plays in Allied?<p>Writer <b>Steven Knight</b> has said that his new film, <i>Allied</i>, is based on a story about World War II spies that he heard third-hand from an old girlfriend. It could well have been more than an urban legend, though: …

Documentary criticised as unbalanced and cinema cancels screening worried it could be ‘potentially damaging to our credibility’<p>A Melbourne cinema has cancelled a screening of a documentary on men’s rights activism for fear it could be “potentially damaging to our credibility” following online …